sandwich.
Taken at New Orleans French Quarter Fest - 2017
The guy was blitzed!!!
Don
Good photo, Don. You caught them at the right moment. Would suggest a little more contrast.
Voss wrote:
Good photo, Don. You caught them at the right moment. Would suggest a little more contrast.
Agreed. Nice shot but it needs some contrast.
Better, but not quite what I envisioned. I played with it a bit, and if you don't mind, I can send it over.
Voss wrote:
Better, but not quite what I envisioned. I played with it a bit, and if you don't mind, I can send it over.
Can we all see it? and can you tell us what you did?
: )
Natalie
Voss should post it here Natalie and all of us should be able to see it. I am also very interested in what he did.
Don
PAR4DCR wrote:
Voss should post it here Natalie and all of us should be able to see it. I am also very interested in what he did.
Don
OK. Here it is. Basically, I just used the "contrast" adjustment on my editor to increase the contrast. It didn't take it quite as far as I wanted, so I used the Silver Efex Pro2 program in the Nik Collection (the Nik Collection is a freebie), to make slight increases to the whites and the blacks. (To a small degree, they can be adjusted separately in Nik.)
Generally speaking, for B&W photos, if something in the photo is definitely black (e.g. the space between the slats on the bench), and something is definitely white (e.g. the styrofoam), then the greys will also look much better.
If you find this to have too much contrast, you can of course stop sooner. Actually, every time I increased the contrast a bit, I liked it better. I even increased it a bit more before posting this.
Voss wrote:
OK. Here it is. Basically, I just used the "contrast" adjustment on my editor to increase the contrast. It didn't take it quite as far as I wanted, so I used the Silver Efex Pro2 program in the Nik Collection (the Nik Collection is a freebie), to make slight increases to the whites and the blacks. (To a small degree, they can be adjusted separately in Nik.)
Generally speaking, for B&W photos, if something in the photo is definitely black (e.g. the space between the slats on the bench), and something is definitely white (e.g. the styrofoam), then the greys will also look much better.
If you find this to have too much contrast, you can of course stop sooner. Actually, every time I increased the contrast a bit, I liked it better. I even increased it a bit more before posting this.
OK. Here it is. Basically, I just used the "... (
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Many thanks for sharing the image and your process : )
PAR4DCR wrote:
sandwich.
Taken at New Orleans French Quarter Fest - 2017
The guy was blitzed!!!
Don
Shades of David Hasselhoff's drunken cheeseburger video...
Thanks for your detailed description Voss. Presently all I have is Lightroom 5.7. I guess I could play with the paint brush along with the contrast slider.
Don
PAR4DCR wrote:
Thanks for your detailed description Voss. Presently all I have is Lightroom 5.7. I guess I could play with the paint brush along with the contrast slider.
Don
Your contrast slider will probably do the job for you. What I did in Nik was a very small part of it, and probably unnecessary. And that really is a good photo.
PAR4DCR wrote:
Thanks for your detailed description Voss. Presently all I have is Lightroom 5.7. I guess I could play with the paint brush along with the contrast slider.
Don
Lightroom should work for you. I use Luminar and I just use the Black & White template and tweak with the contrast, blacks, whites or shadow slider until I get it looking like I want.
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